The House adopted several amendments to the bill before passing it, including one by Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.) that added a five-year sunset to the bill.

But lawmakers voted to reject a motion to recommit by Rep. Ed Perlmuttter, who sought to add language specifying that nothing in the bill could be construed to allow employers and the government to mandate that employees and job applicants disclose confidential passwords without a court order. The defeated motion also would have added language saying that nothing in the bill could allow the government to block access to the Web through the creation of a national Internet firewall similar to the Great Internet Firewall of China.'

Privacy hawks were disappointed with the outcome of the passage vote.

"Americans should be concerned at the extent to which their privacy will be

It will be interesting to see what, through committee and ‘compromise’ this morphs into. From what little I've read of this monstrosity in progress it seems to be mainly immunity for ISPs. Which means if you have an ISP... anything goes. Crazy, immoral, illegal.

Basically this {Quayle’s amendment} means CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity bill at all. The government would be able to search information it collects under CISPA for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as they can claim someone committed a “cybersecurity crime”. Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all. Moreover, the government could do whatever it wants with the data as long as it can claim that someone was in danger of bodily harm, or that children were somehow threatenedagain, notwithstanding absolutely any other law that would normally limit the government’s power.
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CISPA is now a completely unsupportable bill that rewrites (and effectively eliminates) all privacy laws for any situation that involves a computer. Far from the defense against malevolent foreign entities that the bill was described as by its authors, it is now an explicit attack on the freedoms of every American.

Which makes me think Lamar Smith is going to make another run at getting SOPA passed. This is not good, it's like House Republicans are trying to piss off Conservatives and get young people out to vote for Obama at the same time.

It makes no difference between D or R politicians. They are all beholden to the lobby money. They all look at us citizens as potentially guilty of something while they take money from their corporate bribers and their cash cows.

No corporation should get immunity at the sacrifice of and taxpayer and citizens expense and privacy. We the people are the “owners” of the USA, not corporations or special interests. Our politicians of both Parties look at it as just the opposite.

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posted on 05/02/2012 9:39:37 AM PDT
by apoliticalone
(Honest govt. that operates in the interest of US sovereignty and the people, not global $$$)

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